Awesome Yuvi. Congratulations! :D > On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Danese Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > > Woot! Way to go, Yuvi! > > D > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Mark Bergsma <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm very pleased to announce that as of this week, Yuvi Panda is part of >> the Wikimedia Technical Operations team, to work on our Wikimedia Labs >> infrastructure. Yuvi originally joined the Wikimedia Foundation Mobile team >> in December 2011, where he has been lead development for the original >> Wikipedia App and its rewrite, amongst many other projects. >> >> Besides his work in Mobile, Yuvi has been volunteering for Ops work in >> Wikimedia Labs for a long time now. One of the notable examples of his work >> is a seamlessly integrated Web proxy system that allows public web requests >> from the Internet to be proxied to Labs instances on private IPs without >> requiring public IP addresses for each instance. This very user friendly >> system, which he built on top of NGINX, LUA, redis, sqlite and the >> OpenStack API, sees a lot of usage and has dramatically reduced the need >> for Labs users to request (scarce) public IP address resources via a manual >> approval process. >> >> Another example of his work that has made a big difference is the >> initiation of the Labs-Vagrant project; bringing the virtues of the >> Mediawiki:Vagrant project to Wikimedia Labs, and allowing anyone to bring a >> MediaWiki development environment up in Labs with great ease. More recently >> Yuvi has been working on our much needed infrastructure in Labs for >> monitoring metrics (Graphite) and service availability (Shinken). We expect >> this will give us a lot more insight into the internals and availability of >> software and services running in Wikimedia Labs and its many projects, and >> we should be able to deploy it in Production as well. >> >> Of course all of this work didn't go unnoticed, and about half a year ago >> we've asked Yuvi if he was interested to move to Ops. With his extensive >> development experience and his demonstrated ability to join this with solid >> Ops work to create stable and highly useful solutions, we think he's a >> great fit for this role. >> >> Yuvi recently had his VISA application accepted, and is planning to move to >> San Francisco in March 2015. Until then he will be working with us remotely >> from India. >> >> Please join me in congratulating Yuvi! >> >> -- >> Lead Operations Architect >> Director of Technical Operations >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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